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The shape he's in, he couldn't have gotten far.

We'll find him.

We better.

Before he finds himself.

Yeah, right.

That's it?

Is it enough for dinner?

Yeah, brunch maybe.

But definitely not dinner. Yeah, I know, guys. Look, our last food drive didn't

go as well as we'd hoped.

Well,

we're just going to have to... We're going to have to make do with fresh

vegetables instead.

Courtesy of Gino's Market.

Okay, just give us a minute here.

There should be enough for everybody, I promise.

Courtesy of Gino.

How would this cost you?

Just a drink on Friday.

And dinner.

And nothing else.

Did you have another tough night last night?

I slept almost an hour.

Why don't you go on home?

We'll handle it.

Pardon me. Pardon me. Pardon me.

Pardon me. Pardon me. Pardon me. Pardon me. Pardon me. Pardon me.

It doesn't matter anymore.

Okay.

What's your name?

It's all right. It's all right. Don't be afraid.

I don't know who I am. I don't know where I am. I don't know what it's going

be!

Okay.

Wouldn't you be frightened?

Wouldn't you be frightened?

This is the only thing that matters.

What is it?

Everything I have.

My memory is in here.

There

is

nothing wrong with your television. Do not attempt to adjust the picture.

We are now controlling the transmission.

We control the horizontal and the vertical. We can deluge you with a

channels or expand one single image to crystal clarity.

And beyond, we can shape your vision to anything our imagination can

conceive.

You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the

deepest inner mind to the outer limits.

Please stand by.

Do our memories define our identity?

If we are merely the sum of our experiences, what do we become if those

experiences are lost?

How's he doing?

Well, his color's coming back. Looks like he'll be able to sleep at all, but

think he just fainted. Did he have any ID?

No, no. Oh, just this. I found it tucked inside his jacket.

He was probably mugged.

What do you think he meant when he said his memories were inside that?

Oh, I think he had a lot of fun last time he shot up.

I've never seen works like that before.

Oh, me neither. Maybe it's some new type of crank with a fancy skin popper.

Oh, he's somebody at the cutting edge.

Oh, we should probably have the police take a look at it. I could drop it off

the morning.

Yeah, okay.

I'll put it in the box.

You're at the Goodwill House.

It's a homeless shelter. I work here. My name is Hope, okay?

What's your name?

I can't remember.

I don't know.

Where's my case?

Where's my case?

Where's my case?

Okay, listen, listen, listen.

Where's my case?

Come on, come on. Here, come on. Listen, listen.

We had to confiscate it.

We don't allow drugs here.

No. They're my drugs. They're my memories.

Really? Now, how do you remember that?

What is this?

What is this? What is this?

I don't know. It looks like a burn or a circle with holes in it.

Oh,

can you give us a hand over here, please?

Yeah. I'm coming.

Okay. Listen, I'll be back in a few minutes. Just stay here. We'll talk some

more. Wait. I'll be right back.

in the package.

apartment? Uh -huh.

What about his gym?

Uh -huh.

Nobody's seen him in six hours.

Where would you go if you were him?

He probably doesn't even know he's him.

Unless he sees the injector.

So tell me, somebody brought something in here that was dangerous.

Where would it end up?

You mean like Kurt's knife and Terry's medicine?

In the cabinet in Jack's office.

Good idea.

Yeah, clever.

You know, it's not just that weird mark on his neck. There's something different

about him.

His hands are really soft and his fingernails are manicured. Yeah, and

shirt he's wearing would cost me about a week's salary.

People fall from the top as well as the bottom.

Yeah.

I know.

Hope, we're here for everybody, remember?

Yeah, sometimes a little extra attention pays off, too, remember?

Yeah.

Just don't get too attached.

I learned from the master.

Where'd he go?

Here, here. Hold that for me.

Hey, what are you doing in there?

Give me the case.

My name is Tom Cooper.

I know who I am.

You have to believe me.

I am Tom Cooper.

You ever

seen this guy?

Love them for you and your friends.

Even if he's figured out how to use the injector, he can't be back yet. I can't

afford to give him that chance.

So you say your name is Tom Cooper.

You really expect us to believe that that thing just gave your memory back to

you? How else can you explain that I suddenly know my name?

I can remember my dad.

He smoked a really fat cigar. Hey, Tommy. Every night after dinner. I mean,

smelled sweet. You want a cigar?

It was like honey. And we moved around a lot as a kid.

Always changing schools.

And this is your room. New bedrooms, different houses.

A lot of small towns. Like Milton. Milton and... Barry.

Barry and...

Halliburton. That's not far from here.

And Paula Gilchrist. She lived next door.

God.

She was so pretty.

Deep blue eyes.

My brother. My brother had a thing for her. But she liked me better.

She liked me better.

And she... She...

What? What? I can't remember. There's nothing after that. It stops there. It

just stops.

Open up.

Why won't they open up?

Please, wait.

Do yourself a favor. Let this one go.

Okay.

Why? I lived there once.

I know I did.

And maybe somebody there will recognize me and they will tell me who I am.

You're not making this up, are you? I mean, you really believe that this thing

can manipulate memories?

You sound like you want that to be true.

Maybe I do.

Well, we're not going to find out here.

It wouldn't be hard for people to get away from their past.

A device that could take away bad memories.

Maybe put better ones in their place.

Could do a lot of good.

Maybe that's what it's intended for.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Recognize anything?

No.

I wonder if they're still alive.

Who? My parents. My brother.

See, right now, in my mind, they're all right there.

But after 10 or 11, it just gets real fuzzy. It just goes

blank. Do you have any family?

Parents, brothers, sisters?

I have a sister, but we don't really keep in touch.

Yeah.

Marine Garage.

Wait, wait! I remember that gas station.

Right there.

Right there.

My house is only a couple of blocks from here. Go right down here. Right down

here and take a right.

It's close.

There! There, it should be right over there.

Stop, stop.

No!

My house was here.

I lived here.

Tom, I'm sorry.

I lived here.

There.

You see, Tom Cooper and Paula Gilchrist.

My brother, he was so jealous.

He was so jealous that she liked me better, so I carved her initials in this

tree to rub it in.

Yeah, it was cool and crisp. It was perfect.

Okay, well, maybe we could talk to some of the people in the neighborhood. See

if they remember you. I don't care about them. I want my memories back.

Give me your keys.

Give me your keys!

Please.

Please.

Come on, you don't know what you're doing. You could break this.

I don't care!

I need to know who I am. Grab the crystal.

Bits and pieces, but something went wrong.

The tubes in the case, they must be on some kind of a timer like an automatic

drug dispenser.

Maybe I tried to force the information from the crystal into my mind before my

mind was ready for it.

Dr. Cooper!

Dr. Cooper!

Dr. Cooper. Do you know them?

I don't.

whoever they are they won't know to look for you here i just need to lay low

it's long enough to take the few remaining crystals

They'd live.

Hey.

Hey.

My pants.

My shirt.

Oh, I threw them in the wash. They should be ready in about an hour.

But you can wear these meanwhile.

Thanks. And that credit card thing you have is on the counter.

Don't you live alone?

I do. They're leftovers.

And Mr.

Leftover, he's not going to walk in here and demand these back.

No, I doubt it.

It's been a while.

I see.

I see.

I didn't say anything.

Yes, you did. You said, oh, he dumped you. No, no, no. You just used the

I see.

No, really, it's none of my business.

Yeah. So what happened?

I'm making some tea. Do you want some? Sure.

If you don't want to talk about it, just tell me.

How big was this guy?

Big enough.

I couldn't find a listing for Dr.

Tom Cooper, and I called a friend of mine downtown.

As far as missing persons is concerned, you aren't missing.

I've been missing from my life for at least 24 hours.

Somebody must have noticed.

If anybody cared.

Yeah.

If anybody cared.

I keep getting flashes of fragmented memories from the second crystal.

My parents.

Mom drinking.

Dad yelling.

And my brother, he's jealous all the time.

Gives me an empty feeling inside, a deep sadness, and I don't like it.

So, what happened?

I think my mom was frustrated.

She had ambitions she could never meet.

Or dad provide.

So she drank.

And then daddy lost his job, and that left him frustrated.

I'm Paula Gilchrist.

Why aren't you running a corporation or something?

What do you mean?

I mean you're smart, beautiful, and you've got a great personality.

Then I can make tea.

Exactly. So how did you avoid law school or business school or astronaut school?

I don't know.

I am.

I was living on the street when I should have been in 10th grade.

That's how I met Jack.

At the Goodwill house.

So why'd you run away?

You have to believe me.

I loved Joanne.

My sister.

I don't think I would have lasted as long as I did.

Even though it was happening to both of us.

You see, our father, he used to...

Mom wasn't around, so

what were we supposed to do?

We made a pact, me and Joanne, that we would run away together.

But I got scared.

I wouldn't be able to take care of myself much less the two of us, so...

I left her behind

with him.

I have is this picture of her.

Oh, you were just a kid.

Yeah, well, so was she.

So was she.

I keep telling myself that I shouldn't feel guilty for saving myself, but

sometimes I just wish...

You did another one?

Uh -huh.

Hey, hey.

Are you all right?

Yeah, I'm fine.

I finally left home.

I left behind that living gown for good.

You see that scar?

I stepped in front of a flying bottle to protect my brother.

That is the last time I stuck my neck out for somebody.

After college, I went to med school.

Those goons were right.

I am a doctor.

I spent my residency at Washington, D .C.

And that's what... What?

What is it?

I'm married.

That's him, all right.

He looked like he'd seen better days.

That's definitely him.

And he was here last night.

That's right.

He came in around dinner time.

Oh, he's real messed up.

He's shooting up off some kind of... What does he know?

Oh, I don't know. He left early this morning.

Did he leave here alone?

He didn't seem dangerous.

Yeah, yeah, he left alone.

Did he say where he was going?

Or make any calls?

Uh -uh.

So, what'd this guy do exactly?

I just happened to run into Paula one day in D .C.

Hadn't seen each other in years, but it was like we'd never been apart.

We were married a month later.

You weren't wearing a ring.

Maybe it was stolen, along with my wallet and the other stuff.

I can see her.

She's walking towards me on our wedding day.

We're outside.

The sun is just so warm.

God, she's beautiful.

Are there children?

No.

Oh, my God.

Fuck.

Do you think I planned this?

If you're looking for Hope, you're not alone.

I'm not in, so leave me a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Hope.

It's Jack.

You there?

Pick up.

Hope, I know you're a big girl now and you can look after yourself, but...

That guy you went with could be real trouble.

There were some men in the office, federal agents.

They said he escaped from some high -security mental institution.

They said he's psychotic.

Please be careful.

Call me as soon as you get in.

You can't believe that.

You can't believe that.

Just stay away from me. Stay away from me. No, no, no.

Wait. Stay away from me. Listen to me.

Please. Please. They're making that story up.

You just discovered you're married.

Anything with you is possible.

You're right.

You're right.

I called the police and you turned me in.

I'll drive.

Dr. Cooper?

Car!

Damn, they took off!

Who the hell are you guys?

You still don't know?

Tell me!

No!

Stay out of this!

Now I know I'm Dr. Tom Cooper. And now you're going to tell me what you did to

me and why. And then you're going to take me to my wife.

Paula?

She's dead.

No.

You're lying.

Paula's been dead for years.

Truth hurts.

Tell me.

She was mugged.

When I was in Washington, I started doing memory research.

I figured out a way to manipulate brain cells to access and delete their

contents.

Are you saying that you may have had something to do with this injector?

I invented it.

Then why would someone want to use it on you?

I know this place, but I didn't know there was any research being done here.

I know, but I'm sure I worked here.

It does seem like pretty high security for a clinic.

This is where they took my memories.

This is where I escaped from.

Right here.

What were you doing here?

From Goodwill House?

Yeah. Mickey.

Test subject's one of her clinical trials. We pay you.

Son of a bitch.

What?

What are they doing in there? I can't remember.

Wait. Wait.

Maybe we can find out.

And hold on to that.

Thank you.

What happened? What did you see in there?

It's my fault.

It's all my fault.

They're using the injector.

My injector. They're experimenting on people.

Erasing members.

You built a weapon.

No, it's not possible.

to prove anything.

I care for you.

The man you are now.

Not the man you were. What if this mask was turned you back into the person who

built a weapon like that?

That person wasn't me.

You don't know that.

You don't know who it was. Are you willing to take that chance?

You don't know what it's like. There's a whole part of my life that's gone.

And I don't know if I'll ever stop wondering.

You have a chance that most people only dream about.

Do you understand?

You have a chance to really start over fresh with a blank slate.

We have a chance. We can both start over.

All done.

Part of me went with her.

She was my conscience.

And after she was gone, I think I stopped caring.

Good evening, Dr. Cooper.

You finally remembered the clinic.

You're too late. He already destroyed the last crystal.

I'm no use to the department now.

You think we're working with your old employer?

The ones that had you erased?

You got it backwards, Dr. Cooper.

We're with the Krovis Corporation.

Your new employer.

My new employer?

You contacted us.

Said you wanted to defect to the private sector.

For a very high price, I might add. But the government, well, those black -off

types you worked for, didn't want the technology you developed to get out.

That's why they had you erased.

But you'd already made a copy of your memories.

Habaka sent it to us, just in case something like this should happen.

here because you made it through the first four crystals. No. We're only

following your orders, sir.

Remember?

I'm sorry.

If you don't, you will.

No can do, Doc. Faith.

I'm sorry, miss.

No. We need Dr. Cooper the way he was.

Not the way he is. No.

No.

Don?

Don't worry, Hope.

This will only take a minute.

Considering how awful most of your memories are, I really think you should

thanking me.

I'm just making the pain go away.

No, please, please don't do this. Don't worry.

You won't remember a thing.

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